Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Silicon Valley / San Jose International Airport @ Moffett Field

Anthony Dominguez made a great concept document on what life would be like if SJC were to be moved Moffett field. The document is incredibly well thought out and is worth a look. Would love to hear some of your opinions.

I turned the concept document into a convenient Google Doc that you can access right over here.

Thanks Josh for presenting my idea. Key to this is the possibility of Moffett hosting EXPO 2020, which could bring numerous facility, infrastructure improvements to the airfield and blimp hangars. And for those who aren't aware, the airfield would be covered temporarily for the exhibit (about 8 months). There's definetely a future for Moffett Field; perhaps it will one day be our airport.

I gotta say I don't quite get why this Moffett Field international airport thing comes up every once in a while. We just spend over 1 Billion dollars on SJC (and that was scaled back from what was originally planned). This simply isn't going to fly (no pun intended). Are you serious...an international airport near Mountain View with all those high priced houses...the approach cannot always be over the bay. Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, etc. All these exclusive communities are not (NOT) going to tolerate aircraft noise.

It's just good harmless fun talking about this but who are we kidding here. I've never read SJInside (I assume it's a magazine or a blog) and I'm not a geriatric. I feel that some SJ boosters are obsessed with the idea that SJ needs a dense downtown filled with high-rise towers. They blame the airport for the fact that we have height restrictions (which is true) and so obviously the answer is to move the airport. The other idea floating around is to put the airport in Gilroy. Equally silly!!!